DeedShield · Live Monitor
WARRANTY DEEDOFFICIAL RECORD
Doc No.
2019R0188441
Recorded
06 · 14 · 2019
Grantor (From)
MICHAEL ALAN ROBERTS
Grantee (To)
JANE ELIZABETH DOE
Jurisdiction
NEW YORK CITY · ACRIS
Legal description
Signature
NOTARY
QUITCLAIM DEEDOFFICIAL RECORD
Doc No.
2026R0451221
Recorded
05 · 12 · 2026
Grantor (From)
JANE E. DOEmatch: 12/100
Grantee (To)
ACME HOLDINGS LLC
Jurisdiction
NEW YORK CITY · ACRIS
Legal description
Signature
NOTARY
Evidence Packet · Ready
PDF · 2.4 MB
Incident #2026-05-12-NYC
Suspicious filing on parcel 1-00873-0042
Certified copy retrieved · NYC ACRIS
Affidavit of forgery generated
Attorney directory · 4 matches in your state
Police report draft prepared
Title-insurance claim form pre-filled
Total time to evidence47seconds
• ACT 01 · BASELINE

This is the deed on record for your property.

We pull it from the county recorder, hash its content, and watch for any new document filed against the same parcel.

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NYC ACRIS
Philadelphia Department of Records
Miami-Dade Clerk
LA Registrar-Recorder
Cook County Recorder
Harris County Clerk · Houston
Dallas County Clerk
Tarrant County PFA
Bexar Vanguard Property Alert
Travis County Clerk · Austin
NY AG · HETPA enforcement
FTC consumer alert
FBI IC3
GA HB 1292
TX 2025 deed theft act
NYC ACRIS
Philadelphia Department of Records
Miami-Dade Clerk
LA Registrar-Recorder
Cook County Recorder
Harris County Clerk · Houston
Dallas County Clerk
Tarrant County PFA
Bexar Vanguard Property Alert
Travis County Clerk · Austin
NY AG · HETPA enforcement
FTC consumer alert
FBI IC3
GA HB 1292
TX 2025 deed theft act
DeedShield · Threat Intelligence

The threat is accelerating.

You just watched one filing get caught on screen. Across the country, the AG and the FBI are watching this happen at a scale they couldn’t process if they tried.

These numbers are conservative — most cases go unreported until the foreclosure notice arrives. And the products that claim to fix it? The FTC has called what most title-lock services sell not insurance at all.

NY AG · 2025
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deed-theft complaints filed with the NY Attorney General in 2025

Up from 222 in 2024 and just 149 in 2023 — a 240% increase in two years.

FBI IC3 · 2025
Trending up
$0M
in real-estate fraud losses reported to the FBI in 2025

Up from $173M in 2024. Deed and title schemes are the single fastest-growing category the bureau tracks.

NY AG · since 2023
Trending up
0%
increase in NY deed-theft complaints in two years

Disproportionately affects Black homeowners, seniors, and immigrants. NY enacted new criminal statutes in 2024 and saw first convictions under them in 2025.

Next

So if the county won’t call you and title insurance won’t catch it in time — how do we?

• WHERE WE’RE WATCHING

Ten metros, six states. The places where deed theft is already losing homeowners their houses.

We don’t do nationwide on day one. Each county is a real integration: an API, a data feed, or an enrollment in the county’s own free alert program — surfaced together in one dashboard.

New York City · NY
Live
ACRIS (Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens)
NYC Open Data · Socrata
Philadelphia · PA
Delayed
Department of Records
OpenDataPhilly · Carto SQL
Miami-Dade · FL
Enrollment
Clerk of the Courts
Clerk Property Fraud Alert
Los Angeles · CA
Enrollment
Registrar-Recorder / County Clerk
Assessor e-Notification
Cook County · IL
Enrollment
Recorder of Deeds
PropertyFraudAlert · Fidlar
Harris County · TX
Live
Houston · Clerk Real Property
cclerk.hctx.net · direct scrape
• Plus four more Texas metros
Enrollment-relay · upgrading to live
Dallas · TX
Clerk Recording Division
Dallas Property Alert · GovOS
Tarrant · TX
Fort Worth · Clerk Real Estate
PropertyFraudAlert · Fidlar
Bexar · TX
San Antonio · Clerk
Vanguard Property Alert
Travis · TX
Austin · Clerk Recording
Travis Clerk Notifications
• The asymmetry

Recording happens in public. Detection doesn’t have to.

The county publishes every filing. Most homeowners never read those records — that’s the gap fraudsters live in. We read them every day, score every document, and tell you before the next move gets made.

• Plain talk

We’re not a title lock. Nothing is.

The county recorder accepts every filing a notary stamps. No product, service, or insurance can stop a fraudulent deed from being recorded. The category that says otherwise — “title lock insurance” — is not insurance at all per the FTC.

What we do: detect the filing fast, score it for fraud risk, and walk you through a real remediation flow. The rest of this page tells you exactly how. No hype, no fear-marketing.

DeedShield
Blocks fraudulent filings at the recorder
DeedShield
No — nobody can. Recorders accept what notaries stamp.
Title-lock products
Marketed like yes. Also no.
Detection speed
DeedShield
NYC: <24 hours. Philly: 6–8 weeks (the upstream feed lag).
Title-lock products
Weekly bulk pulls. 7–14 days typical.
Fuzzy name matching
DeedShield
Levenshtein + phonetic + LLC pattern + typo + probate detection.
Title-lock products
Often exact-match only. Misses LLC variants and typos.
Remediation when fraud is detected
DeedShield
8-step wizard: certified copy, affidavit, attorney directory, police-report draft, evidence-packet PDF.
Title-lock products
An email. You're on your own.
Cancellation
DeedShield
One click in /profile. Stripe subscription canceled immediately.
Title-lock products
Often a phone call. FTC complaints reference this directly.
Pricing transparency
DeedShield
Free tier monitors one property forever. Paid tiers explicit on /pricing — cancel any time.
Title-lock products
Variable; up-sells at signup; can run $15–30/mo.

“Title-lock products” refers to the category the FTC warned consumers about — not any one company. Different providers vary in implementation. The comparison reflects common patterns in their advertising and FTC consumer complaints.

II
Act IIThe defense — three things the county won’t do for you.

Here’s how we catch it before the foreclosure notice arrives.

Every recorded document looks like this. We read it three different ways, in this order.

01READ

Every recorded document, daily.

We pull the NYC ACRIS recorder feed daily, scrape the Harris County Clerk (Houston) directly, and pull Philadelphia's Department of Records on a delayed cadence. For Miami, LA, Cook, and the rest of Texas (Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis) we relay each county's free fraud-alert program into the same dashboard — and switch on a live feed there the moment our integration lights up.

02MATCH

Owner-name match, fuzzy.

Levenshtein + phonetic + LLC-pattern + deceased-name flags. We score by document type — quitclaim deeds get scrutinized hardest, routine bank-to-bank assignments get filtered. A name that looks like yours but isn't gets caught.

03RESPOND

Suspicious? A 24-hour wizard.

Pull the certified copy. Generate the affidavit. Connect to a state-specific real-estate attorney. Build the police-report packet.

• NEXT

That’s what we do. Now choose how aggressively you want us to do it.

II
Act IIChoose how aggressively you want to defend.

Three deeds. Three levels of protection.

We don’t charge for what the county already does free. We charge for family monitoring, portfolio coverage, and the wizard that runs when something looks wrong.

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  • Secondary recipient
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Portfolio across counties. Weekly digest. CSV + read-only API. For landlords and small investors.

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DeedShield is a monitoring & remediation service. It is not insurance, not a legal service, and not a replacement for title insurance. We detect — we do not prevent recording at the county.

• Get started — your home, watched

Same house. Same paperwork. Now with someone watching it.

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